John Milius—writer, director, hardcore gun enthusiast. The man behind Red Dawn (1984) in many ways embodied the persona of America in the 1980’s—a Commie hatin’ son-of-a-gun who was a big fan of violence. When Milius made Red Dawn, a tale of high schoolers fighting back against a Soviet invasion, he created what Variety once called a “tribute to unbridled Reagan-era jingoism.”
Unsurprisingly, Milius served as part of the inspiration for the character of Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski (1998). The Coen brothers said of Milius, “He was never actually in the military, although he wears a lot of military paraphernalia.